Dress As A Movie Character
Costume designers accept bigger than best how clothes accomplish the man – and the woman – in movies. Every account of clothing, accent or brace of shoes tells the admirers article it didn't already apperceive about the characters affectation about the screen. But that's not absolutely a action of either the amateur cutting them or the apparel artist who created the look: It's absolutely a aggregation effort. Here are four teams who are admirable us this awards season, administration how they came calm to actualize memorable looks.
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Julianne Moore (Lillian/Rose)
Sandy Powell, apparel designer
The players: Having formed on two antecedent aeon films calm ("Far From Heaven," "The End of the Affair"), Powell and Moore slipped into accessory so the Oscar-winner could comedy both Rose (circa 1970) and Rose's mother, Lillian (circa 1920). "Sandy consistently starts with shape, abnormally with best things to see what works for you and the time period, and again she builds the blush in," says Moore. "She was actively aghast because I didn't change [costumes] in this blur much!"
Clothing challenge: Amid her designs, Powell created a affection canvas anorak top and chrism cigarette blow trousers for the earlier Rose, but with a attenuate advertence to a sailor accouterments the adolescent Rose wears abroad in the film. "The accomplished action is one of collaboration," she says. "It's about alive with addition to accomplish a goal. Julianne and I formed calm to accomplish her characters appear to life."
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"Murder on the Orient Express"
Kenneth Branagh (Hercule Poirot)
Alexandra Byrne, apparel designer
The players: As both administrator and star, Branagh batten with Byrne aboriginal on about his character's costume, alive out those capacity afore affective into the blow of the cast's outfits. "We carefully talked about the Poirot apparel aboriginal in the process, because already he started on the assembly he would be swamped," recalls Byrne, who has formed on Branagh's "Hamlet" and "Thor," amid added films. "Costume forms allotment of the ritual that helps you accept the character," says Branagh. "It's the alpha of arena the part."
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Clothing challenge: Poirot is alien in black wear, complete with a coat, cape, hat, apparent covering shoes and a cane. "There's a conciseness to the absolute ensemble that marks out the contour of this acclaimed character," says Branagh. But Poirot was not a affluent man, and that meant befitting clothes to his class, which Byrne says was all-important in this 1930s Britain. "We capital him to accept a bit of affectation and an bright quality, afterwards it actuality too wealthy. Everything had to be pared bottomward – functional, but additionally with claimed style."
Justin Timberlake (Mickey Rubin)
Suzy Benzinger, apparel designer
The players: Benzinger says designing for men in movies is generally easier than women, and begin Timberlake decidedly accessible to assignment with. "Guys dress for abundance in the movies and in absolute life. Justin had a accustomed concern about so abounding things." Meanwhile, Timberlake had annihilation but acclaim for his designer: "She's a adept at her craft, and has so abounding abundant account for my character."
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Clothing challenge: Timberlake warned Benzinger that they ability accept a apparel issue. "I told her I was activity to apparently lose 10 to 12 pounds afore we started shooting," says Timberlake. "A lifeguard aback again was a slender, abate man. So we had to refit all of my pants." And pants were decidedly important to portray a Greenwich Village-living, Coney Island-working writer/lifeguard, accurately a wide-leg, high-waist brace of chinos. "They're cut absolutely as they were cut then," says Benzinger of Timberlake's clothing. "A artist is advantageous to accept Justin Timberlake abrasion their clothes. He looks so natural, and so great." That said, there was one accurate account of hidden accouterment Timberlake appropriate absolutely helped accumulate him in character: "We wore best underwear from the absolute period," he says. "Something you'd never know!"
Judi Dench (Queen Victoria)
Consolata Boyle, apparel designer
The players: Dench and Boyle had advantages advancing to "Victoria & Abdul": The extra had played Queen Victoria in 1997's "Mrs. Brown," and she and Boyle had formed calm on 2013's "Philomena." "There's annihilation that Consolata doesn't apperceive about avant-garde or aeon dress," says Dench. "You're able to hit the arena active with [Dench]," says Boyle. “She knows how to use costume, and she'll acquaint you absolutely what she feels."
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Clothing challenge: Black-clad Victoria, still in aching afterwards Prince Albert's death, was fabricated brighter with ribbons and applique that "catch the light," says Boyle. But aboriginal in the blur she attends a accompaniment banquet in abounding august regalia – including an acutely continued train. "It's emblematic of so abundant that was attached for Victoria at the time," says Boyle. "This breakable woman, cutting a dress with all these embellishments." What does Dench bethink about that outfit? Aloof her 16-year-old white dog Minnie antagonism about on the alternation during fittings.
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